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The North Atlantic Record Fades Away for Giovanni Soldini and his Maserati Team –

Following Three Days of Extreme Conditions and Intense Speed the Weather Fails

New York (May 14, 2012) – “We didn’t make it; the barometer has started to rise.” With these words Giovanni Soldini, on board Maserati, said that the New York-Lizard Point record attempt has definitely faded…

With his sunburned, deeply creased face and callus-encrusted hands, Giovanni Soldini looks distinctly out of place in downtown Manhattan as he waits in the shadows of the Battery Park skyscrapers for the weather patterns that will allow him to shove off in the 70-foot racing sailboat Maserati on a trans-Atlantic record…